Sheva Zucker

Sheva Zucker Biography

Dr. Sheva Zucker is currently the Executive Director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel.

She is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I & II, and the editor and producer of the CD “The Golden Peacock: Voice of the Yiddish Writer” which features 10 Yiddish writers reading from their works.

She teaches Yiddish and Yiddish Literature in the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, currently under the auspices of New York University and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and taught for many years at Duke University.

She was, for several years,the Translation Editor of the Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, and she writes on women in Yiddish literature.

She has taught and lectured on Yiddish language, literature and culture on five continents.